Karavan Press is excited to announce that we will be publishing the debut short story collection by the excellent local writer Lester Walbrugh. We signed the agreement last week at Liberty Books, a cosy bookshop in Grabouw, Lester’s hometown.
Lester’s short stories have been published in several anthologies and literary magazines. This year, his “The Space(s) Between Us” has made the longlist of the prestigious Short Story Day Africa Prize and will feature in the SSDA anthology, Hotel Africa; and his “Hairs and Graces” will be published in Hair: Weaving and Unpicking Stories of Identity in September. We look forward to putting together a selection of his best published and new work and sharing it with lovers of the short story. Watch this space for further details!
LESTER WALBRUGH is from Grabouw in the Western Cape. His short stories have been published in Short.Sharp.Stories’s Die Laughing, Short Story Day Africa’s anthologies and New Contrast. He has lived in the UK and Japan and is currently back in his hometown to work on his debut collection of short stories, which will be published by Karavan Press, and a novel.